The Hero's Body: A Memoir

by William Giraldi

Book Overview

At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse for The Hero's Body. In the tradition of Andre Dubus III's Townie, this is a deep-seeing investigation into two generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldi's own forays into obsessive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871406667
• ISBN13: 9780871406668
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.5"